Reunited

As the book starts, Gabe Sanchez has just found his estranged wife Leigh O'Brien and pulled her out of a lake where she was bound and drowning after having been shot and clubbed in the head. 

Daisy Parker lost her virginity to her former stepbrother Nick Coltrane (their parents were married less than a year when she Daisy was 16 and Nick had just graduated from college) at Nick's sister's wedding reception when she was 19.

10 years ago sheriff's deputy Dylan Matthews' brother was stabbed to death by his best friend, who then hanged himself in a jail cell after confessing and being sentenced. Dylan went undercover as a narcotics cop in Detroit to escape the rumors that he had something to do with the hanging,

Tory Martin is a foreign correspondent with the associated press, covering troubled areas. Now she's taken 3 weeks vacation to get revenge on the dictator of a small Latin American country, La Paz.

This is a two in one Presents featuring two stories with characters who are not quite who they seem...

This book features three stories - one set in the US, one in Australia and one in England - during the holidays.

Saskia Newlyn works a gardner in England but she's on vacation in Venice at the moment with her boss Jamie.  Only her real name is actually Saskia Alessandros - she took back her maiden name 2 years ago when she fled Italy and left her husband Domenico.  Now at the theatre with their tour group, she sees Domenico - and what's worse he sees her too.

Pippa is enaged to be married to her boss Tom who she works for at an insurance company but when they get into a car crash with her ex boss, Randal Harding, her world spins out of control. 

Maria Johnson is basically a spoiled little rich girl, except that she's not at girl anymore at 28.  She's living off alimony payments and as she's due to inherit a trust fund from her grandfather in a year she's not exactly trying to do anything meaningful with her life, until her father shocks her by demanding she get a job - with his PR firm if she's got no better prospects - and what's more her former lover is coming back to take over as director of the firm!